HTTPS Problems with Mercury router ART514CX

BT having exhausted my patience over problems I was gettting with a
voyager 105 modem ( dropping out every 5 minutes ) I bought a network
card & router/modem and attempted to install myself.

The 5 minute dropout no longer occurs. Hurrah.
Normall http & downloads work fine. Hurrah.
I get a browser timeout when I access any https pages. Boooo.

I am a long way from the exchange using BT broadband basic & not
particularly technicallly competant.

Things I have tried as a result of reading other threads :-

Reduced MTU from 1492 down to 1400 ( with various values on the way)

Disabled the firewalls on both the PC & router.
Confirmed that https still works with the voyager modem ( albeit for
about 4 1/2 minutes.)

Do DNS settings have anything to do with this?

Any suggextions gratefully received however obvious they may seem to
you - many thanks

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> BT having exhausted my patience over problems I was gettting with a
> voyager 105 modem ( dropping out every 5 minutes ) I bought a network
> card & router/modem and attempted to install myself.
>
> The 5 minute dropout no longer occurs. Hurrah.
> Normall http & downloads work fine. Hurrah.
> I get a browser timeout when I access any https pages. Boooo.
>
> Any suggextions gratefully received however obvious they may seem to
> you - many thanks

Got any software firewall enabled too? I've seen similar problems when
people run Norton Personal Firewall. Try disabling your firewall if you have
one.

>
> Got any software firewall enabled too? I've seen similar problems when
> people run Norton Personal Firewall. Try disabling your firewall if you have
> one.

Thanks for the suggestion. Firewalls on both PC & router have been
disabled. After a suggestion from another thread I have cleared out all
cookies - this allows acess for a few pages before everything locks up
again - if I again delete cookies everything works again for a few
more pages. I get the same results with both IE & Firefox browsers. I
realise this is slightly off topic now - but it only started when I
replaced the Voyager modem with a router/modem. Any other suggestions?

I think im having the same sort of problem. I have the exact sam
router/modem and i have 2 PCs hooked into it. Everything will be fin
when the router is first booted and then about 5-10 mins late
everything will slow down. Pages will take ages to load, firefox wil
get stuck saying "Waiting for www.whatever.com..." in the status bar
Latency in games is terrible (>1500ms) and it all just seems like i
back on a dialup conenction. Its so touch and go as to whether or no
it will actually work.

Did you ever find a solution to this

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footwo